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Piled high with elegant strings, horns, and vibraphone, these 10 tracks mark a new sophistication for this talented group.
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The most fully realised Lambchop record, the most perfect blend yet of their alt country roots and their obsession with soul.
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By any criteria an astonishing work.
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Music this laid-back but this deep, so full-bodied and yet so restrained, could only have been made by Lambchop.
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Nixon serves as a reminder that expertly executed stylistic hybrids and ironic juxtapositions-- great though they may be-- don't replace memorable songwriting. Sure, it's a novel concept, but while some of us may still be patient enough to "get it" five albums into the band's career, Wagner's talent and unique vision should demand a more challenging album.
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Heartbreaking, gorgeous and totally individual, these big-production numbers meld the different but complementary beauties of Nashville country and sweet soul while adding a dash of wine-dark weirdness.
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[Lambchop vocalist Kurt] Wagner shares a sense of offbeat phrasing and doleful humor with his singer-songwriter friend Vic Chesnutt that is both profoundly Southern and affectingly universal.
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A near-masterpiece of magical sounds that are both familiar and wildly new, a stunning blend of classic Americana and classical orchestration.
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Expansively orchestrated, Nixon ultimately comes off as beautiful but slightly disturbing...
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Nixon sounds like the Superfly soundtrack recorded in a different dimension, one in which Mayfield and Marvin Gaye met up with Lawrence Welk for an impromptu jam session.... a drowsy near-masterpiece.
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The album navigates effortlessly from peak to peak.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 17
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Mixed: 1 out of 17
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Negative: 5 out of 17
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RuiOJan 7, 2006Fucking brilliant!
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DaveFAug 11, 2005A superb, luscious, inventive, thoroughly beautiful album that just keeps getting better with every listen. Quite possibly a perfect record.
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EdsonUFeb 27, 2005Fantastic! Only this...